Material Interactions Design Lab
[Double-Anonymous Peer Reviewed]

Publications

57
GROUP ‘27 FULL PAPER
Tracked Into Closeness: Surveillance Intimacy and Location-Sharing in Close Relationships
Claire Weizenegger, Audrey  Desjardins, Sean Munson, James Pierce
2027
56
CHI ‘26 Workshop
The Quality of Speculation: Common Ground for Speculative Design in Human-Computer Interaction?
Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Judith Dörrenbächer, Chris Elsden, James H. Auger, James Pierce, Richmond Y. Wong, and Marc Hassenzahl.
2026
55
CHI '25 Full paper
Exploring the use of Speculative Concept Films for Co-Speculation around Data Ethics
Wyatt Olson, James Pierce
2025
54
4S ‘25 Panel
The Rise of Research Security.
David Ribes, James Pierce, Laura Forlano
2025
53
CHI ‘25 Workshop Paper
Reflecting on the Multi-Functional Artifacts of Arca: A Privacy-Enhancing Smart Device for You and Your Extended Household
James Pierce, Claire Florence Weizenegger, Robyn Anderson, Hope Terpilowski, Wyatt Olson, Lian Bensadon, Faith Ong, and Cobi Stancik.
2025
52
CHI ‘25 Workshop
Research Products and Time: When, For How Long, And Then What?.
Arne Berger, Stephan Hildebrandt, Albrecht Kurze, William Odom, Tom Jenkins, James Pierce, David Chatting, Doenja Oogjes, Sara Nabil, Andy Boucher, William Gaverc Hassenzahl.
2025
51
DIS ‘25 Workshop
Design Knowledge in AI: Navigating Temporality and Continuity.
Hyungjun Cho, Jiyeon Amy Seo, Heekyoung Jung, EunJeong Cheon, Woosuk Seo, Maria Luce Lupetti, James Pierce, Graham Dove
2025
50
DIS '25. Pictorial
Wall, An Eccentric Design Probe: Exploring and Exposing the Sense-and-Extract Paradigm.
James Pierce, Gabrielle Queen, and Kristin Tapang.
2025
49
DIS '25. Pictorial
Arca: Documenting Novel Design Patterns for Improving Interpersonal Privacy with Smart Cameras.
James Pierce, Claire Florence Weizenegger, Robyn Anderson, Hope Terpilowski, Wyatt Olson, Lian Bensadon, Faith Ong, and Cobi Stancik.
2025
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CRC Press. '24.
"Para-functionality." Designing Interactions with Robots: Methods and Perspectives.
James Pierce, In Lupetti, M. L., Zaga, C., Cila, N., Šabanović, S., & Jung, M. F. (Eds.).
2025
47
CHI '24 Full Paper
Using Annotated Portfolios to Interrogate Speculative Designs: The Case of Emergent Personal Data Trails.
Snow, Stephen, Awais Hameed Khan, Ben Matthews, Inmaculada Rodríguez, Audrey Desjardines, Ayanna Seals, Omar Sosa-Tzec et al.
2024
46
CHI ‘23 Workshop
Data as a material for design: Alternative narratives, divergent pathways, and future directions.
Matthew Lee-Smith, Audrey Desjardins, William Odom, James Pierce, Doenja Oogjes, Mathias Funk, Young-Woo Party, Pedro Sanches, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Jesse Benjamin
2023
45
CHI ‘23 Full Paper
The Entoptic Field Camera as Metaphor-Driven Research-through-Design with AI Technologies.
Jesse Benjamin, Heidi Biggs, Arne Berger, Julija Rukanskaitė, Michael Heidt, Nick Merrill, James Pierce, and Joseph Lindley
2023
44
CHI ‘23 Full Paper
Probing a Community-Based Conversational Storytelling Agent to Document Digital Stories of Housing Insecurity
Brett Halperin, Gary Hsieh, Erin McElroy, James Pierce, and Daniela Rosner
2023
43
 DIS '22 Full paper
Broadening Privacy and Surveillance: Eliciting Interconnected Values with a Scenarios Workbook on Smart Home Cameras.
Richmond Y. Wong, Jason Caleb Valdez, Ashten Alexander, Ariel Chiang, Olivia Quesada, and James Pierce.
2023
42
C&C ’22 Workshop
Venetian drawing conversations.
Paulina Yurman, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, James Pierce, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Anuradha Venugopal Reddy, and Matt Malpass.
2022
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 DIS '22 Pictorial
Addressing Adjacent User Privacy.
James Pierce, Isha Agarwal, Parag Nandi, Claire Weizenneger, Gwenna Gram, Jade Hurle, Betty Lo, Aaron Park, Aivy Phan, Mark Schumskiy, and Grace Sturlaugson.
2022
40
CHI '22 Full Paper
Monitoring Pets, Deterring Intruders, and Casually Spying on Neighbors: Everyday Uses of Smart Home Cameras
Neilly Tan, Richmond Wong, Audrey Desjardins, Sean Munson, and James Pierce.
2022
39
4S ‘21 Demo/Exhibition
Material Experiments and Playful Disruptions: Interrogating Boundaries, Meanings, and Aesthetics of the Smart Camera.
Richmond Wong, Neilly Tan, Jason Valdez, Nathaniel Gray, and James Pierce
2021
38
CHI '21 Full Paper
In Tension With Progression: The Frictional Tendencies of Speculative, Critical, and Other Alternative Designs.
James Pierce
2021
37
C&C '21 Pictorial
Eccentric Sensing Devices: Using Conceptual Design Notes to Understand Design Opportunities, Limitations, and Concerns Connected to Digital Sensing
James Pierce
2021
36
C&C '21 Pictorial
Machine Learning Uncertainty as a Design Material: A Post-Phenomenological Inquiry.
Jesse Benjamin, Nick Merrill, Arne Berger, and James Pierce
2021
35
AI & SOCIETY '21 Full Paper
Encountering ethics through design: Techniques and preliminary insights from a workshop with nonhuman participants.
Anu Reddy, Iohanna Nicenboim, James Pierce, and Elisa Giacardi
2021
34
DIS’ 20 Demo/Exhibition
Eccentric Sensing: Exploring Ubiquity, Distribution, and Autonomy in Everyday Sensing Technologies.
James Pierce (2020)
2020
33
DIS’ 20 Demo/Exhibition
“Roomba+Clips Cam: Exploring Unpredictable Autonomy in Everyday Smart Systems.
James Pierce (2020)
2020
32
DIS’ 20 Workshop
More-Than-Human 11  Design and AI: In Conversation with Agents.
Iohanna Nicenboim, Elisa Giaccardi, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Anuradha Venugopal Reddy, Yolande Strengers, James Pierce, and Johan Redström
2020
31
DIS’ 20 Workshop
RtD in Situ: Discussing the Domains and Impact of Design Research.
Tom Jenkins, James Pierce, Kristina Andersen, Andy Boucher, David Chatting, and William Gaver
2020
30
CHI '20 Workshop
Speculative Designs for Emergent Personal Data Trails: Signs, Signals and Signifiers.
Stephon Snow, Awais Hameed Khan, Stephen Viller, Ben Matthews, Scott Heiner, James Pierce, Ewa Luger, Richard Gomer, and Dorota Filipczuk
2020
29
CHI '20 Full Paper
Speculative Illumination: Exploring the Design Qualities and Ethical Implications of Always-On/Often-Sensing Smart Cameras Using Lighting Analogies and Speculative Designs.
James Pierce
2020
28
C&C ‘19 Demo/Exhibtion
Lamps, Curtains, Robots: 3 Scenarios for the Future of the Smart Home.
James Pierce
2019
27
RtD '19 Workshop
Encountering Ethics in Data-Enabled IoT.
Anuradha Reddy, Iohanna Nicenboim, James Pierce, and Elisa Giaccardi
2019
26
CHI '19 Workshop
Doing Things with Research through Design: With What, with Whom, and Towards What Ends?
Kristina Andersen, Andy Boucher, David Chatting, Audrey Desjardins, Laura Devendorf, William Gaver, Tom Jenkins, William Odom, James Pierce, and Anna Vallgårda
2019
25
CHI '19 Full Paper
Smart Home Security Cameras and Shifting Lines of Creepiness: A Design-Led Inquiry.
James Pierce
2019
24
CHI '19 Full Paper
From HCI to HCI-Amusement: Strategies for Engaging what New Technology Makes Old.
Laura Devendorf, Kristina Andersen, Daniela K. Rosner, Ron Wakkary, and James Pierce
2019
23
RtD '19 Full Paper
Deviating, Accelerating, and Restraining the Smart Home: A Design Study of Smart Home Security Cameras.
James Pierce
2019
22
ACM interactions magazine '18
Crafting a Place for Attending to the Things of Design Research at CHI.
Tom Jenkins, Kristina Andersen, Bill Gaver, William Odom, James Pierce, Anne Vallgårda
2018
21
ThingsCon ‘18
More-than-Human Design for the Future of AI in the Home
Iohanna Nicenboim, Elisa Giaccardi, James Pierce
2018
20
CHI ’18 Workshop
Disruptive Improvisations: Making Use of Non-Deterministic Art Practices
Kristina Andersen, Laura Devendorf, James Pierce, Daniela Rosner, and Ron Wakkary
2018
19
CSCW ’18 full paper
Differential Vulnerabilities and a Diversity of Tactics: What Toolkits Teach Us about Cybersecurity.
James Pierce, Sarah Fox, Nick Merrill, and Richmond Wong
2018
18
DIS ’18 Pictorial
An Interface without A User: An Exploratory Design Study of Online Privacy Policies and Digital Legalese.
James Pierce, Sarah Fox, Nick Merrill, Richmond Wong, and Carl DiSalvo
2018
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CHI ‘18 Full Paper
Addressing Network Anxieties with Alternative Design Metaphors.
James Pierce and Carl DiSalvo
2018
16
ACM interactions magazine '17
Crafting a place for attending to the things of design at CHI
William Odom, Tom Jenkins, Kristina Andersen, Bill Gaver, James Pierce, Anna Vallgårda, Andy Boucher, David Chatting, Janne van Kollenburg, and Kevin Lefeuvre
2017
15
4S ‘17 Demo/Exhibition
Design Workbook Variations: Exploring Biosensing Privacy Futures.
Richmond Wong, Ellen Van Wyk, and James Pierce
2017
14
CHI '17 Workshop
The Things of Design Research: Diversity in Objects and Outcomes.
Tom Jenkins, Kristina Andersen, William Gaver, William Odom, James Pierce, Anne Vallgårda
2017
13
CSCW '18 Full Paper
Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks.
Richmond Y. Wong, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Ellen Van Wyk, James Pierce and John Chuang
2017
12
DIS ’17 Pictorial
Dark Clouds, Io&#!+, and 🔮 [Crystal Ball Emoji]: Projecting Network Anxieties with Alternative Design Metaphors.
James Pierce and Carl DiSalvo
2017
11
DIS ’17  Full paper
Real-Fictional Entanglements: Using Science Fiction and Design Fiction to Interrogate Sensing Technologies.
 Richmond Wong, Ellen Van Wyk, and James Pierce
2017
10
RtD’17
Network Anxieties Design Packets.
James Pierce and Carl DiSalvo
2017
09
ASA ‘16 Panel
Excessively Crude or Objectionable”: Metadata+ and the Rendering of US Drone Warfare within Everyday Life.
James Pierce
2016
08
CHI ’16 Workshop
Attending to Objects as Outcomes of Design Research.
Tom Jenkins, Kristina Andersen, William Gaver, William Odom, James Pierce, and Anne Vallgårda
2016
07
Dis '16
Design Proposal for A Wireless Derouter: Speculatively Exploring Digitally Disconnected Space.
James Pierce
2016
06
CHI '15
Making Multiple Uses of the Obscura 1C Digital Camera: Reflecting on the Design, Production, Packaging and Distribution of a Counterfunctional Device.
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
2015
05
CHI '15
Expanding and Refining Design and Criticality in HCI.
James Pierce, Phoebe Sengers, Tad Hirsch, Carl DiSalvo, Bill Gaver, and Tom Jenkins
2015
04
CHI '15
Expanding and Refining Design and Criticality in HCI.
James Pierce, Phoebe Sengers, Tad Hirsch, Carl DiSalvo, Bill Gaver, and Tom Jenkins
2015
03
Open Engagement ‘09
Network Anxieties
James Pierce and Carl DiSalvo
2015
02
RtD'15
Obscura 1C Digital Camera
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
2015
00
ACM interactions magazine '14
Undesigning interaction
James Pierce
2015